Christian Niles wrote:
> As part of my research into my previous question about MVAs and cached IDs,
> I noticed that TS uses GROUP_CONCAT to assemble the list of integer IDs in a
> case like this:
> 
>   has users(:id)
> 
> I know from a previous bug in another project that GROUP_CONCAT silently
> truncates the result string if it exceeds the 'group_concat_max_len' system
> variable, which defaults to 1024 characters. This is probably fine for most
> cases, but if you exceed that limit, you'll get invalid data.
> 
> This is just an FYI, rather than a bug report or feature request.

Thanks for highlighting this issue, imho it's useful to have such data
archived on google groups.

Menno van der Sman proposed a patch that (I think) resolves this issue
last month, although I'm not sure what stage Pat is at with merging it
into his mainline repository.  Hopefully it will be merged soon if it
hasn't been already.

See the discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/94bec92a0c401136/

-- James Healy <jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com>  Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:30:54 +1100

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